Family Love Alliance, a group of far-right wing Islamic activists, wants the courts to introduce a ban on consensual sex between adults of the same gender. Prison sentences are suggested to go up to 15 years.

It comes as the country has banned gay dating apps, and earlier this year Indonesia’s leading psychiatric body classified homosexuality and transgender as ‘mental disorders’ that can be ‘cured’.

Indonesian Broadcasting Commission has banned ‘gay propaganda’ and ‘effeminate males’ on TV while the defense minister has declared the LGBT movement as ‘more dangerous than nuclear warfare’.